Community Sports

Andrew Jackson High School junior ace golfer Emily Cox has earned a bid to play in the prestigious 2015 U.S. Women’s State Team National Championship golf tournament.
Cox, through a spring and summer of success, will play in the elite tournament Sept. 7-12 in Cape Girardeau, Mo.
“This is a big honor and I’m so proud of Emily,” AJ High golf coach Champ Williams said.
Team members are selected based on points earned in USGA-sponsored tournaments. The three women with the highest points from each state form a team.

Andrew Jackson High School golf star Logan Sowell captured the Kershaw Golf Club championship, prevailing in a one-hole playoff on Sunday, Aug. 16.
Sowell and Jerry Pardue were tied at 135 after 36 holes in the Kershaw Golf Club championship to force a playoff.
Sowell parred No. 1 to take the one-shot win for the title.
The battle for the Kershaw title was tight as Pardue, a former KGC champion, held a one-shot lead after the opening 18 holes.
Pardue carded a 68, while Sowell posted a 69.

The Olivers led the way for the Lancaster chapter of the S.C. Junior Golf Association in the annual Thomas D. Todd all-stars tournament at the Patriot Golf Club in Ninety Six on Aug. 22-23.
David Oliver and his sister Braelyn Oliver were the top finishes for the LJGA all-stars in the two-day tournament.
David Oliver, in the boys 7-9 age division, tied for second with a 73 over 18 holes. Landry Williams, age 6, placed ninth.
Braelyn Oliver, in the girls 7-9 age group, finished fourth and Rachel Kate Hinson was sixth.

The Carolina Marlins baseball team will open its quest for a second league championship as they host the Kelton Tigers with a pair of weekend games.
The Marlins, the top seed in the playoffs and the National League champions, will host a 4 p.m. game Saturday, Aug. 22 and a game Sunday, Aug. 23 at 4.
The games will be played at the Wheels of Peace field at 3671 Wheels of Peace Drive.
Take U.S. 521 North to North Corner and turn on Wheels of Peace Drive and follow to the field.
The Marlins, 25-7, 16-4, are the top seed for the playoffs.

One of the Lancaster Golf Club’s “good guys” has played his final round. That’s a shame because Mike “Red Man” Kennington truly loved the game of golf.
Kennington, a fixture at the LGC as a sometimes employee and avid golfer, died last week after a battle with cancer.
During the recent club championship, which saw 14-year-old phenom Anthony “T” Sutton earn the crown, there was still talk of “Red Man.”

Standout golfers in the Lancaster chapter of the S.C. Junior Golf
Association will be competing for top honors in the annual Thomas D. Todd
all-stars golf tournament at the Patriot Golf Club in Ninety Six this weekend.
Some 14 Lancaster chapter all-stars, ranging in age 7-18, will compete for
titles in the age divisions Saturday, Aug. 22 and Sunday, Aug. 23.
The Lancaster chapter all-stars represent the top two finishers in each
age division during the regular-season tournament play for the 2015 spring

Robert Howey
rhowey@thelancasternews.com
Anthony “T” Sutton continued the young’s stellar run in the Lancaster Golf Club championship tournament Sunday afternoon, Aug. 9.
Sutton, 14, and a Buford High School golf star, captured the LGC’s prestigious crown with a 150 (72-78).
Sutton’s championship came a year after Lancaster High School golf ace Brady Hinkle, also then 14, won the club championship with a three-under 141 (72-69) for a nine-shot victory.

The Lancaster chapter of the S.C. Junior Golf Association wrapped up its 2015 tournament season with the two-day Roy Small Junior Championship at the Lancaster Golf Club on July 27-28.
The tournament is held in memory of the late Mr. Small, a Lancaster Athletic Hall of Famer and an avid supporter of junior golf in his lifetime.
The season-ending tournament featured a host of links battles to decide age division crowns and chapter all-stars.
Trey Crenshaw captured the boys 10-12 age division, shooting a 75 (36-39) over two-days for an eight-shot win.

Greenwood Post 20 edged Lancaster to end Post 31's hopes in the S.C. American Legion state baseball tournament at Sumter's Riley Park on Sunday, July 26.
The game was tied at 1-all in the eighth inning, but Greenwood scored a run on a pair of Lancaster errors for the decisive tally.
Lancaster, the League V runner-up, ended its season with a 14-14 record.
Post 31 qualified for the state tournament after winning back-to-back best-of-three series with Walhalla and Inman.

Lancaster Post 31 dropped its opening game in the 2015 S.C. American Legion state baseball tournament on Saturday, July 25.
Florence topped Lancaster, 12-0 in the 4 p.m. game at Sumter's Riley Park.
Florence Post 1 scored two runs each in the opening two innings for a 4-0 edge and broke open the game with eight runs in the fourth.
Lancaster will seek to stay alive as it faces Greenwood in an elimination game at 9 a.m. Sunday.
James Gardner had two hits to lead the Lancaster offense.